"We chose Perl as the main development language for the e-smith server and gateway because of its widespread popularity (making it easier to recruit developers) and it's well suited to e-smith's blend of system administration, templating and Web-application development."

"... Administration of an e-smith server and gateway system is performed primarily via a Web interface called the "e-smith manager." This is essentially a collection of CGI programs that display system information and allow the administrator to modify it as necessary."

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